Title: Team Lead & Clinical Nurse Specialist
Company: Covenant Health
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Job Type: FlexTime, FullTime, Shift
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The Team Lead CNS role provides multiple services across the health care continuum including but not limited to recommending solutions for complex health care issues, leading clinical guidelines and protocols development and implementation and collaborating on system change. The CNS leads and fosters the professional development of RNs and nursing practice to maximize the scope and depth of practice leading to optimal patient outcomes. As a knowledge translator, the CNS searches for, critiques, interprets, synthesizes uses and disseminates evidence in clinical practice and for quality improvement and patient safety initiatives. The CNS contributes to the development and evaluation of programs and services. The successful candidate will model patient and family centered care principles and involves the patient and families as partners in care to improve health outcomes and the health care experience. The diverse role and responsibilities of the CNS require extensive collaboration with stakeholder groups. The CNS designs and implements protocols and guidelines that demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision-making through the critical examination and application of evidence from clinical research integrated with advanced clinical expertise, patient input and existing resources. This role will include financial management aspects of people and resource, clinical care, systems leadership, advancement of nursing practice, research and evaluation. The successful candidate must be flexible, collaborative and have excellent problem-solving skills.
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